Female Filmmakers were front and center at TIFF ’20 as the Festival closes-out and this year’s Award winners are announced.
Here are the complete list of winners from this year’s Festival:
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD – NOMADLAND dir. Chloé Zhao. The first runner up is One Night in Miami… dir. Regina King. The second runner up is Beans dir. Tracey Deer.
TIFF 2020 People’s Choice Documentary Award winner is Inconvenient Indian dir. Michelle Latimer
TIFF 2020 People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award winner is Shadow in the Cloud dir. Roseanne Liang.
Shawn Mendes Foundation 2020 Changemaker Award is awarded to Black Bodies, a short film by Kelly Fyffe-Marshall.
CANADA GOOSE AMPLIFY VOICES AWARDS
Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film: Inconvenient Indian, dir. Michelle Latimer
Special Mention: Fauna, dir. Nicolás Pereda (Canadian Film)
Amplify Voices Award: The Disciple, dir. Chaitanya Tamhane
Amplify Voices Award: Night of the Kings, dir. Philippe Lacôte
Special Mention: Downstream to Kinshasa, dir. Dieudo Hamadi
IMDbPro SHORT CUTS AWARDS in partnership with SHARE HER JOURNEY
IMDbPro Short Cuts Award for Best Film: Dustin, dir. Naïla Guiguet
IMDbPro Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Film: Benjamin, Benny, Ben, dir. Paul Shkordoff
IMDbPro Short Cuts Share Her Journey Award: Sing Me a Lullaby, dir. Tiffany Hsiung
Honourable mention: O Black Hole!, dir. Renee Zhan
(Photo credit: Searchlight Pictures)
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